Psalm 64:1-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹ Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
    preserve my life from the dread enemy.
² Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
    from the scheming of evildoers,
³ who whet their tongues like swords,
    who aim bitter words like arrows,
⁴ shooting from ambush at the blameless;
    they shoot suddenly and without fear.
⁵ They hold fast to their evil purpose;
    they talk of laying snares secretly,
thinking, “Who can see us?^[a]
6     Who can search out our crimes?^[b]
We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot.”
    For the human heart and mind are deep.